'White Pride' chalked on college sidewalks by you guessed it, YOUTH FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION

[alp227]

Found this story from a Baltimore resident's political blog: "Sidewalk Messages Stir Controversy At Towson University":

Lingering flames of racial tension among Towson University students have been fanned to high levels after "White Pride" was scribbled on sidewalks all over campus.

At Towson University, students use chalk to write messages or promote events on campus sidewalks, but a recent chalking by one group is raising eyebrows because it has divided students. On Thursday, students gathered for a forum on campus to discuss their thoughts and concerns about the messages.

"I came from one of the roughest neighborhoods in Baltimore, and to come all the way to Towson University and feel like this is the most insecure, unstable environment because I see things like white (pride)," said Ignacio Evans.

Dressed in a white T-shirt with the Confederate flag on the front, Matt Heimbach spoke on behalf of the student group Youth For Western Civilization, which has claimed responsibility for the ubiquitous messages.

WHOA! It's really telling when a group like Youth for Western Civilization has to make that point. Not surprising given that they are soft on South African apartheid and radically oppose multiculturalism and immigration. It's a shame that people can hold such views and still be accepted to college.

[pamela]

1. Ugh, That's my Alma Mater x2

I did not expect this at Towson. Nothing like that when I was there.

[tularetom]

2. "First they came for..."

I don't think the campus is necessarily "divided" over this kind of crap. I'll bet that 99% of the white students think that "Youth for Western Civilization" are a bunch of pathetic assholes.

But it's still dangerous because who will they go after next?

[pamela]

5. Very true.

Unless that campus has changed a LOT since I was there, I can't imagine many white students at Towson liking this shit either. It has always been a fairly progressive school in a progressive area.

[Lost-in-FL]

3. Great story... but the title bothered me.

I think the confusion comes from the headline itself, it stirs 'negativity or fear'. It is a great topic of conversation and the story seems to have perhaps a positive outcome; the conversation has started.


'We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.'  ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

[LeftishBrit]

4. Disgusting

They seem determined to prove the validity of Gandhi's reply when asked what he thought of Western civilization: 'I think it would be a good idea'.